Ring, Ring, Ring… It’s the Racist-phone!

If your ring-tone is set to “dog whistle”, you might be a racist. Contrary to the GOP narrative, “playing the race card” doesn’t mean calling out racism where none exists, it’s putting on ads like these. The ad below, paid for by the Tea Party Victory Fund PAC, is to be run in three Ohio counties — Lucas, Summit, and Mahoning — all of which are predominantly white.

Former senator and presidential candidate George McGovern has been admitted to hospice. McGovern, 90, is best remembered for his lopsidedly failed bid to unseat Republican Richard Nixon as president on a platform urging the withdrawal of US troops from the bitterly divisive war in Vietnam.

“OOPART” stand for “Out Of Place Artifact”, the subject of a concise post at Bad Archaeology. Beachcomber classes these on the scale of “the nod category” (meh) to “the eye popping category” (‘The text books would not just have to be rewritten: they would have to be SHREDDED’). Unsurprisingly, not so many fall into the last category.